Why is Indonesia relocating its capital?
The country’s parliament has just passed a law to move the national capital from Jakarta to the planned city of Nusantara by 2024. One of the world’s most populated urban regions, Jakarta, is home to more than 10 million people, with an estimated 30 million more in the greater metropolitan...
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UK healthcare is officially failing women
A newly published report has revealed the extent of the nation’s gender health gap, requiring the government to finally acknowledge that sexism is ingrained within the UK’s healthcare systems. While women’s health has undergone a generational culture shift in recent years, prompting more open discourse around historically stigmatised concerns regarding...
Opinion – we need an improved vetting process for influencers
The recent Molly-Mae scandal has exposed the deeply problematic nature of influencer culture in the digital age, signifying it’s time we introduced better regulations for social media personalities and their platforms. When I first learned of the backlash surrounding Molly-Mae Hague’s controversial ‘we all have the same 24 hours in...
Commercial interest in biomaterials tipped to explode in 2022
In the synthetic age, profitability and sustainability have long butted heads. Biomaterials have been touted as the saving grace for green manufacturing for years, but only now are the building blocks coming into place for 2022. It goes without saying that the prospect of forming low-carbon economies is nigh-on impossible...
NGOs sue UK government for lax net-zero climate plans
The UK government is being sued by climate NGOs for failing to include policies needed to deliver COP26 emission cuts. They argue the current strategy relies too much on speculative technologies. Already in hot water over a number of parties that may or may not have happened, the UK government...
The EU’s continued problem with empty ‘ghost’ flights
A technicality requiring airlines to use 50% of their airport slots – or face losing them to competitors – leads to thousands of empty flights a year. In Brussels, where the custom is particular bad, pressure is on to stop immediately. When facing the public, western governments appear staunchly determined...
New exhibition sees 25 life-sized lions invade London’s South Bank
A pride of lions have made their home in Waterloo to raise awareness for animal conservation. It looks like London has a thing for lions - whether they be roaming around Regent’s Park Zoo, standing guard beneath Nelson's column, or singing on stage in the West End. Evidently the city is the perfect place for Born Free’s new outdoor exhibition, which has erected 25 bronze big cats in Millennium Green, just...
Around one million species could go extinct within the next few decades
With more plants and animals than ever before on a global list of threatened species, WWF has warned of a looming mass extinction – the largest event of its kind since the end of the dinosaur age. 66 million years ago, an asteroid struck the Earth, resulting in a worldwide environmental change that, as we know, wiped out the dinosaurs. Today, another mass extinction event is looming, the...
Climate change ‘overtakes’ pandemic as #1 global concern
A survey carried out by the World Economic Forum suggests climate change has now overtaken the pandemic as the biggest cause for concern globally, according to the experts. This is where we’ve come to. Both Covid-19 and climate change have wreaked such havoc in recent years that we’re now officially ranking them as threats. Here’s one top 10 that Ed Sheeran is nowhere near. If you’re living in the wealthy west...
Arsenal’s No More Red campaign has a powerful anti-knife crime message
Striving to make disillusioned young people aware of youth centres and other safe spaces, Arsenal and Adidas’ No More Red campaign has a powerful anti-knife crime message that the nation needs to hear. For the first time since the 1930s, Arsenal donned an all-white strip last night in their third-round FA Cup tie against Nottingham Forest. The majority tuning in would have expected to see Arsenal’s customary yellow away colours, but...
